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December 2nd, 2007 - 12:30 pm § in collaboration, online communities, social tools

DIY Publicity: promoting your band through social networking

A friend of mine has a band. They are great musicians and fun people — the consumate performers. They are busily working their contacts in the music industry and in discussions with record labels for contracts. They have a lot going for them, but when it comes to gigs… Disappointingly fe[...]

January 31st, 2007 - 4:54 pm § in online communities, social tools

Privacy legislation and teenagers: Leave me and my Facebook alone!

Developing an adolescent network of friends Being a teenager, for me, was largely a trial-and-error process of figuring out how to be an adult. I wanted autonomy, I wanted to succeed, and I wanted to be able to ask for help — but only on my terms. I created a “family” of friends, r[...]

December 1st, 2006 - 10:36 pm § in online communities

Being yourself in the virtual world

The messages we broadcast As I wander through my day, I’m reasonably conscious of the messages I’m broadcasting: I try to dress well to present an image of being competent, I phrase my comments in such a way that my colleagues will feel good about working with me, I’m conscious of [...]

November 9th, 2006 - 4:56 pm § in online communities, social tools

Knowledge sharing for the over-18s

I didn’t intend for this blog to be quite so adult in its themes, but this was just too funny to pass up. (And I swear, I found it legimitately, searching for social networking resources!) The porn community, one of the largest online group of content sharers and *ahem* common-interest enthusi[...]

November 6th, 2006 - 5:50 pm § in online communities

Helpful hints for Bible shoppers

As one of the original commercial community websites, Amazon has launched the user-referral concept into a common-place online shopping practice. We expect the right to ask people who have bought the book what they thought, and we often want a forum in which to share our own reactions. Amazon has ta[...]